Database Info

[Q] Question while rooting and installing kernal

I know I saw this before somewhere here in the forums but I can't find it. I am following http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14692818&postcount=1 this guy on how to root. I'm at the part: Installing kernel through CWM.
So my problem is when I'm in the recovery mode it says something on the lines of apply update sd card or something like that instead of "install zip from sdcard". How do I get it to say that?
Thanks in advance!
Edit: Another question, do I leave odin3 open the whole time?

I'm thinking you are in stock recovery, not cwm. Did you boot straight into cwm after using odin?
Sent from my Droid Charge!!

no **** i forgot that i had to put the kernal and ROM on the sd card. I'll try that now

I'm stuck at the blue banana? Any ideas on what to do?

Nevermind, got it, had to hit the power button

K, pull battery then boot back into cwm. From main menu use volume key to scroll down. Keep scrolling till a message says back button enabled. After that you should be good.
Sent from my Droid Charge!!

hockeybpr25 said:
I'm stuck at the blue banana? Any ideas on what to do?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Scroll through the menu 3 times till it says go back enabled. Then it should work fine.
Sent from my SCH-I510 using Tapatalk

So I was about to install my ROM and I did wipe data and it does it and then it reset the phone and that female voice started to say whatever it says and then says 2 minutes remaining so it never allowed me to install the ROM. what should I do now?

Just let it do it's thing. After it boots just boot into recovery then flash the rom like you had planned.
Sent from my Droid Charge!!

it just booted up normally and had me set up my phone, i just skipped through everything though because i know it's all messed up atm and i need to flash the ROM
another thing, i forgot to do the sd card fix and i'm trying to put it on the sd card but now it says:
"The disk is write-protected.
Remove the write-protection or use another disk."
How do I fix that?

Ok, from what I've read you can't with the phone. You would have to take the sd card out and put it into your computer if you have a card reader.
Sent from my Droid Charge!!

Crap, I don't think I do. Do I need the SD card fix?

I believe thats the only way to fix it. Not completely sure though. There may be more info in the thread you got the fix from.
Sent from my Droid Charge!!

I just put GummyCHARGED on it and after that it allowed me to add it, so I'm just glad I can still put stuff on it.

Awesome! Glad you got it figured out.
Sent from my Droid Charge!!

Thanks bunches

Sure thing!
Sent from my Droid Charge!!

[Q] Mounting SD card causes crash

Starting from the begining, I have a Samsung Charge which has contuniously decided to go into a boot loop every few days and the only way i know how to get it out is to do a factory reinstall, according to Verizon. So I do that everytime, but this last time it erased everything off my SD card, and now it wont recoginze my SD card, I have reformatatted it multiple times with no success. The only thing that seems to work is if i pull it while the phone is on and then i can mount it, but once I do mount it all my process begin to die and my phone within a matter of mins will return to the boot loop. What did i do? What can i do? I'm lost...

That's why I always remove any external memory because I don't trust it.
Sent from my SCH-I510 using xda premium

yeah defiantly learned my lesson on that...

Loope said:
Starting from the begining, I have a Samsung Charge which has contuniously decided to go into a boot loop every few days and the only way i know how to get it out is to do a factory reinstall, according to Verizon. So I do that everytime, but this last time it erased everything off my SD card, and now it wont recoginze my SD card, I have reformatatted it multiple times with no success. The only thing that seems to work is if i pull it while the phone is on and then i can mount it, but once I do mount it all my process begin to die and my phone within a matter of mins will return to the boot loop. What did i do? What can i do? I'm lost...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You do a factory reinstall every few days and it boot loops continuously?
Sounds like a hardware issue. Go to a corporate store and get a warranty replacement.

Kryptonian_Knight said:
That's why I always remove any external memory because I don't trust it.
Sent from my SCH-I510 using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You don't make any sense.
Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyCharged 2.0

[Q] Phone won't boot up / E:Can't mount /sdcard

This is pretty bizarre.
I have been running CM7 nightly 180 with Trinity for about a month now. I woke up to my phone vibrating a bit - my K9 mail app got reset so it was redownloading old emails. I tried to open my Twitter app and that was reset as well. After that a bunch of force close dialogues popped up, so I rebooted my phone thinking it glitched up. Once I did that, it would show the Google logo, then the first Trinity logo, and just hang there. It did not get to the Trinity animation.
I can get into recovery, and from there I tried to restore to a backup, and it says E:Can't mount /sdcard. Do I have to Odin to fix this or is there another option? I remember the same error happening to my Vibrant, and that was the only solution.
Does anyone have any explanation as to why this happened? I didn't do anything unusual with the phone or install anything new/different at all. I plugged it in, went to bed, and woke up to this.

Strange :S. Did you try to mount SD card from recovery while you have your phone conected to PC? I hope it's not faulty storage memory problem...
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App

I just tried, CWM says "Error mounting /sdcard!" This all happened with my Vibrant. It said all of the same things and I had to use Odin, and it worked, but my /sdcard was completely wiped. It just doesn't make sense since this time I didn't do anything differently; I think on my Vibrant I had installed a new ROM and then it messed up. This time it's like a phantom f**k up.

That doesn't sound so good . Seen few people with same problem, and most of them sent their devices for repairs. It was some hardware error where Odin couldn't help.
Can't be sure if that is the same problem, but it easily could be. I'm not expert, I'm just sharing what I've seen before. Let's hope I'm wrong about this one...

Ugh I really hope not. I bought this phone on eBay in August, I still owe money to Bill Me Later -_-

Off to Samsung it goes
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using xda premium

Get into recovery mode by turning phone off then hold volume up button then press the power button. It should go to recovery. In recovery go to advanced the mount SD card and mount data. Then try doing a restore
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using xda premium

bille3939 said:
Get into recovery mode by turning phone off then hold volume up button then press the power button. It should go to recovery. In recovery go to advanced the mount SD card and mount data. Then try doing a restore
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try to read again what OP wrote in his/her posts...

Have you tried flashing another recovery? Or even, lock and unlock the bootloader? It should format your sd card and that might fix it.
Sent from my Google Nexus S using XDA App

I recall having a similar problem in recovery, I just can't remember what I did to fix it!
Sent from my Google Nexus S using XDA App

You could also try this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18316565&postcount=29

Try use other version of recovery. It is a bug from I dunno which version of recovery.
Accidentally sent from my Google Nexus S using XDA Premium

I'm on version 5.0.0.0 of CWM, is that the buggy one by chance?
I can't get the USB driver to install here at work (Windows), I am going to have to wait til I get home to flash an updated version of CWM from my Mac.

Flashing a new recovery didn't help. My /sdcard still says error for everything. I wish Odin worked on Macs.

Just used someone's PC to use Odin and my phone hangs at "verify image (ipbl)... success." I think I'm going to throw in the towel and cut my losses at this point. I don't really have any other options.

Amazing but working solution for the same problem!
There is a post in Google mobile support were many people had the same problem and one guy exposes the solution, because I am new user, I can't link outside xda so I tell you the fix:
It's said to be a common hardware problem in this device, for me it just works when I power on after heating up with a hot air gun (other people say a hair dryer is enough)
I hope that you find this information useful

any news?? i have the same problem :'(

Heating Works
Thanks I have the same problem. I was not able to mount any of the system or sdcard partitions. Heated the phone with a heat gun and it starts up.
palpablo said:
There is a post in Google mobile support were many people had the same problem and one guy exposes the solution, because I am new user, I can't link outside xda so I tell you the fix:
It's said to be a common hardware problem in this device, for me it just works when I power on after heating up with a hot air gun (other people say a hair dryer is enough)
I hope that you find this information useful
Click to expand...
Click to collapse

[Q] Droid 3 stuck in bootloop

I realize there are multiple threads like this but throughout all of them I have not found any that relate to my issue or a combination of them. If I have missed one I apologize in advance and please direct me to that thread then. I was running steel droid what I thought was 5.5 ICS but it looks like it is 5.1 according to the forums. I was previously running steel droid 4.5 GB. I was switching back to 4.5 because I could not get wifi hotspotting to work. I forgot to wipe my cache and went to install 4.5 and I am stuck in bootloop. X+Power gives me the android error screen, M+Power allows me into the main menu but I cannot use AP fastboot, SBF motorola will not pick up my phone and the screen will show a connection to the USB cable. I've never had a problem before but also have never forgotten to wipe the cache so any thoughts would help.

m3schz8! said:
I realize there are multiple threads like this but throughout all of them I have not found any that relate to my issue or a combination of them. If I have missed one I apologize in advance and please direct me to that thread then. I was running steel droid what I thought was 5.5 ICS but it looks like it is 5.1 according to the forums. I was previously running steel droid 4.5 GB. I was switching back to 4.5 because I could not get wifi hotspotting to work. I forgot to wipe my cache and went to install 4.5 and I am stuck in bootloop. X+Power gives me the android error screen, M+Power allows me into the main menu but I cannot use AP fastboot, SBF motorola will not pick up my phone and the screen will show a connection to the USB cable. I've never had a problem before but also have never forgotten to wipe the cache so any thoughts would help.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Not wiping cache won't give you boot loop lol just go back into recovery wipe everything and flash a working ROM solved :thumbup:
Sent from my SCH-I500 using Tapatalk 2

bbrad said:
Not wiping cache won't give you boot loop lol just go back into recovery wipe everything and flash a working ROM solved :thumbup:
Sent from my SCH-I500 using Tapatalk 2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I would but I get android error screen with exclamation mark each time regardless of how I access recovery X+Power or vol +,- and Power then going to recovery, I wouldn't have thought that not wiping the cache would have been the cause but it was the one step I didn't do that I normally always do so I was just adding it in for information but thanks for the know how that it wasn't the cause. Any other thoughts since I cant even get into my backup ROM or recovery, I have another SD card not sure if my SD card has become fried for some reason, I will be trying that to see if maybe that is all it is.

m3schz8! said:
I would but I get android error screen with exclamation mark each time regardless of how I access recovery X+Power or vol +,- and Power then going to recovery, I wouldn't have thought that not wiping the cache would have been the cause but it was the one step I didn't do that I normally always do so I was just adding it in for information but thanks for the know how that it wasn't the cause. Any other thoughts since I cant even get into my backup ROM or recovery, I have another SD card not sure if my SD card has become fried for some reason, I will be trying that to see if maybe that is all it is.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well I'm on a Samsung device but we have a program you load files in and you can flash your device back to stock do you have something like that?
Sent from my SCH-I500 using Tapatalk 2

Droid 3 stuck in bootloop'
bbrad said:
Well I'm on a Samsung device but we have a program you load files in and you can flash your device back to stock do you have something like that?
Sent from my SCH-I500 using Tapatalk 2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yep but phone isn't picking up my data cable and how ever many issues that have come about here, I think I am SOL but gonna try an SD card hoping that it is just a bad SD card or something like that. May end up having to use part of that great tax return also, thanks for the help, I'm going samsung next, that whole fore sight wasn't there two years ago.

In it's current state, is it in any way possible to tell that it is rooted? Is the boy animation stock or a different one? Motorola might repair it for you if you can't tell that it's been rooted
Sent from my HTC6435LVW using xda app-developers app

Droid 3 stuck in bootloop
dj2muchxx said:
In it's current state, is it in any way possible to tell that it is rooted? Is the boy animation stock or a different one? Motorola might repair it for you if you can't tell that it's been rooted
Sent from my HTC6435LVW using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Unfortunately you can easily tell that it is not stock ROM by bootloop

Well your computer should recognize your droid that's a common problem with Odin and Samsung one of these steps always work so try then and seen if we can't get your droid recognized NUMBER 4 WILL WORK 99% OF THE TIME BUT TRY THE OTHER METHODS FIRST 1. Use the stock cable or try a difrent port 2. If its possible on your program take out the battery and SD card as leaving them in course problems 3. Run the program as aminstrative 4. Plug the phone in and have it in download mode or whatever you call it WHILE THE COMPUTER IS BOOTING Up This will force the computer to recognize it not the best method but it always works
Sent from my SCH-I500 using Tapatalk 2

Droid 3 stuck in bootloop
bbrad said:
Well your computer should recognize your droid that's a common problem with Odin and Samsung one of these steps always work so try then and seen if we can't get your droid recognized NUMBER 4 WILL WORK 99% OF THE TIME BUT TRY THE OTHER METHODS FIRST 1. Use the stock cable or try a difrent port 2. If its possible on your program take out the battery and SD card as leaving them in course problems 3. Run the program as aminstrative 4. Plug the phone in and have it in download mode or whatever you call it WHILE THE COMPUTER IS BOOTING Up This will force the computer to recognize it not the best method but it always works
Sent from my SCH-I500 using Tapatalk 2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks step 4 ended up being the working method, happened again when loading gingerbread back on, so I walked through it again, removed ICS from memory card wiped phone completely and then loaded gingerbread back on and finally had success. Thanks for all the help

m3schz8! said:
Thanks step 4 ended up being the working method, happened again when loading gingerbread back on, so I walked through it again, removed ICS from memory card wiped phone completely and then loaded gingerbread back on and finally had success. Thanks for all the help
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
NP if you ever need anything just ask
Sent from my SCH-I500 using Tapatalk 2

Continuous Bootloop now phone won't recognize SD card

OK so my galaxy note recently got stuck in a bootloop from restoring an apps system data, completely my fault, usually this would be fixed with a simple wipe/reflash but for some reason the phone will not recognize any SD card I put in it, OK so use Odin right? Nope computer won't acknowledge the phone is connected, its stock rooted with stock recovery, I'm no noob but I can't figure out why it doesn't respond to anything, no factory reset, no adb commands, nothing, anybody got an idea?
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda premium

It sounds like you might need to either A) check your USB Drivers, and possibly reinstall them, or B) check the USB cable itself, as phones for some weird reason like to be connected to their OEM cables when using adb. As for your sd card, you can try reformatting it on a PC and see if it will read it then.

That's an idea, more than I had left, I'm going to try formatting the sd card like u said, as far as drivers, I've reinstalled multiple times to no avail, tried every USB cable I have OEM and specific data cables, nothing, I can get into stock recovery, but once in recovery I'm stuck because it does not read the sd card, I can wipe everything, factory reset and reboot and all I get is one big long continuous boot loop, it's so frustrating, I've never been soft bricked and couldn't fix it, it's unbelievable!
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda premium

soupysoup said:
OK so my galaxy note recently got stuck in a bootloop from restoring an apps system data, completely my fault, usually this would be fixed with a simple wipe/reflash but for some reason the phone will not recognize any SD card I put in it, OK so use Odin right? Nope computer won't acknowledge the phone is connected, its stock rooted with stock recovery, I'm no noob but I can't figure out why it doesn't respond to anything, no factory reset, no adb commands, nothing, anybody got an idea?
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If the filesystem is exfat, change it to vfat first and try it again.